| David Gauthier on Sun, 22 Jan 2017 13:39:25 +0100 (CET) |
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| <nettime> Nettime Survey (1995-2016) |
Dear Nettime,
We've been lurking here on and off over the years and have noticed that,
although you have a legacy web interface for your archive
(http://www.nettime.org/archives.php), no one seems to have produced a
longitudinal study, a type of birds-eye view, of the who, what, and when that
constitutes Nettime.
Curiously, we had questions: What amount of activity occurs here over time?
What is your relative liveliness? Who have been your most prolific or
provocative contributors? Do you have distinct cohorts? What are the messages
that were the most popular/replied to? And so on... In an attempt to answer
these questions and, perhaps, to raise others, linked below is the basic survey
we devised over the past few months.
http://nettime-survey.xyz <http://nettime-survey.xyz/>
Here are a few of examples of the type of statistics that we've collected:
Activity - Totals
year messages threads replies in threads
------ ---------- --------- --------------------
1995 55 3 4
1996 575 64 108
1997 1305 194 348
1998 1286 78 126
1999 2449 148 229
2000 2766 283 657
2001 2338 248 477
2002 2043 246 431
2003 1669 210 420
2004 967 125 244
2005 814 115 228
2006 839 110 302
2007 886 132 412
2008 1068 212 573
2009 1076 191 611
2010 758 161 458
2011 1324 270 802
2012 1005 191 607
2013 697 129 330
2014 851 118 389
2015 803 98 304
2016 698 80 350
Activity - Averages
year avg. thread per message avg. replies per thread
------ ------------------------- -------------------------
1995 0.0545 1.3333
1996 0.1113 1.6875
1997 0.1487 1.7938
1998 0.0607 1.6154
1999 0.0604 1.5473
2000 0.1023 2.3216
2001 0.1061 1.9234
2002 0.1204 1.7520
2003 0.1258 2.0000
2004 0.1293 1.9520
2005 0.1413 1.9826
2006 0.1311 2.7455
2007 0.1490 3.1212
2008 0.1985 2.7028
2009 0.1775 3.1990
2010 0.2124 2.8447
2011 0.2039 2.9704
2012 0.1900 3.1780
2013 0.1851 2.5581
2014 0.1387 3.2966
2015 0.1220 3.1020
2016 0.1146 4.3750
Messages per addresses
from messages
------------------------------- ----------
geert{at}xs4all.nl 888
patrice{at}xs4all.nl 726
tbyfield{at}panix.com 447
sondheim{at}panix.com 388
morlockelloi{at}yahoo.com 260
jya{at}pipeline.com 245
bhcontinentaldrift{at}gmail.com 220
bruces{at}well.com 199
brian.holmes{at}wanadoo.fr 190
jaromil{at}dyne.org 184
Threads per addresses
from nbr. initiated threads
------------------------------- ------------------------
geert{at}xs4all.nl 145
patrice{at}xs4all.nl 126
felix{at}openflows.com 60
bhcontinentaldrift{at}gmail.com 58
tbyfield{at}panix.com 56
brian.holmes{at}wanadoo.fr 46
jaromil{at}dyne.org 40
sondheim{at}panix.com 39
jya{at}pipeline.com 36
newmedia{at}aol.c 34
Replies per addresses
from nbr. replies to threads
------------------------------- -------------------------
morlockelloi{at}yahoo.com 248
jya{at}pipeline.com 199
bhcontinentaldrift{at}gmail.com 175
tbyfield{at}panix.com 167
jhopkins{at}neoscenes.net 151
patrice{at}xs4all.nl 148
brian.holmes{at}wanadoo.fr 118
jaromil{at}dyne.org 115
newmedia{at}aol.c 110
mgoldh{at}well.com 110
In the era of "big data," as a corpus, mailing lists are suprisingly
understudied (perhaps it is because they are so small... -- your entire archive
(1995-2016) is only ~210M and fits on my 2004 thumb drive). Nonetheless, we
believe that legacy systems, such as open crawlable mailing lists (GNU
Mailman/Pipermail/Mhonarc), may retrospectively, in the future, provide a more
lasting historical record of digital culture than today's all enveloping
corporate-guarded social media.
David and Marc
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